Edge Computing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Edge Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Edge Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Edge Computing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 380 461
Rank change year-on-year +58 +81 +45
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 14 19 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.091% 0.004%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.11% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile £675 £601 -
90th Percentile £726 £646 -
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £850
% change year-on-year +3.00% -41.18% +34.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Edge Computing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Edge Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Edge Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Edge Computing in the UK excluding London

Edge Computing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Edge Computing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Edge Computing in the UK excluding London

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Edge Computing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Edge Computing in the UK excluding London

Edge Computing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Edge Computing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +48 8 £475 - 30
South West +47 3 £515 - 9
Midlands +22 3 £650 +30.00% 16
West Midlands +14 3 £650 +30.00% 8
Edge Computing
UK

Edge Computing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) CloudFront
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure AI
3 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) 5G
2 2 (14.29%) LTE
2 2 (14.29%) Modbus
2 2 (14.29%) MQTT
2 2 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (7.14%) Internet
3 1 (7.14%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Designer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IoT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IT Architect
4 1 (7.14%) IT Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PyTorch
2 2 (14.29%) Hugging Face
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (7.14%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
3 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) IoT
2 4 (28.57%) Operational Technology
2 4 (28.57%) SCADA
2 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (14.29%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.14%) NB-IoT
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps
1 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
2 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (21.43%) E-Commerce
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) LLM
3 3 (21.43%) MLOps
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) NVIDIA
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens